The Most Eye-Catching Booths at CES 2013

The CES 2013 show floor holds 1.9 million square feet of gadgets and gizmos, and the thousands of exhibitors, buyers, and media clamoring to get a first look.

The trade show officially kicked off in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning, and tech enthusiasts swarmed the convention center, battling long cab lines and crowded halls for the chance to get some hands-on time with this year's hottest tech toys. Though activities for the show are spread out across Vegas –from the Mandalay Bay down to the Venetian–most of the action is at the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center, where attendees are giving their pedometers a run for their money trying to see everything.

But what's a hot gadget without an equally compelling CES booth? Many booths are lacking in the pizzazz department, and in a sea of banners and buzzwords, setups that make you go "ooh" (or "huh?") can be few and far between. The usual suspects–from Samsung to Sony–went all out, creating what are really small villages rather than mere booths. But some smaller, relatively unknown players also managed to create a splash or just catch our eye in a sea of consumer electronics.

From drone demos to massive, spinning iPads, several CES exhibitors got creative. Whether or not the products they unveiled at CES gain any traction this year remains to be seen, but they at least had some booth bling that stood out from the crowd. We've highlighted a few in the slideshow, but let us know in the comments if you spotted any other impressive efforts on the CES show floor.

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